#committee

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program. ↗

— Randy Forbes

#american #believer #firm #firm believer #house

I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#believe #bill #committee #dakota #economy

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#buying #committees #decisions #each #fundamental

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. ↗

— Charles Tupper

#committee #constructing #council #decision #finds

All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing. ↗

— Robert Welch

#alone #building #committee #congressional #dry

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#area #being #bring #committee #create

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#get #industry #jump #nobel #nobel prize

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #capitol #chairman #committee #concerns

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#confirm #court #does #function #judges